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Franklin Square kicks off its 20th season with a free Opening Day event this weekend

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Franklin Square will glow again when the Chinese Lantern Festival returns this summer

Glowing Lantern Walkway - Chinese Lantern Festival 2026

Winter lights and seasonal events are back at Franklin Square

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Electrical Spectacle lights up Franklin Square through year’s end

Electrical Spectacle in Franklin Square

Chinese Lantern Festival returns June 20 to illuminate Franklin Square

PATCO's Franklin Square Station to reopen next month

PATCO Franklin Square

Girl Scout Cookies paired with beer and last-minute ice skating: Your weekend guide to things to do

Weekend guide

Christmas Village, holiday lights trolley and 'Peter Panto': Your weekend guide to things to do

Weekend guide Christmas

Street curling, holiday light show return to Franklin Square for winter festival

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Gymnastics show with Simone Biles and spooky mini golf: Your weekend guide to things to do

It's Halloween all October at Franklin Square with Spooky Mini Golf, fountain light shows and free pumpkins for kids

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Chinese Lantern Festival to illuminate Franklin Square this summer

Chinese Lantern Festival

A tattoo festival and Lunar New Year celebration: Your weekend guide to things to do

Weekend guide tattoo festival

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Disney characters to visit Franklin Square this month for Ice Princess Night

franklin square ice princess night

Museum of the American Revolution celebrates MLK this weekend with poetry, theater performances

MLK weekend museum of the american revolution

Play street curling, admire holiday lights in Franklin Square this winter

franklin square winter

Halloween Nights and spooky mini golf: Your weekend guide to things to do

Halloween Nights weekend events

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Franklin Square to host Halloween-themed mini golf, trick-or-treating and a pumpkin patch in October

Fall Franklin Square

Chinese lanterns, roses and German beer: Your weekend guide to things to do in Philly

Chinese Lantern Festival

This year's Chinese Lantern Festival features a dragon tunnel and fortune-telling wall

Chinese Lantern Festival

Iceless curling and Bierfest 'beerlesque': Your weekend guide to things to do in Philly

things to do bierfest beerlesque

Celebrate Kwanzaa in Philly with kinara lightings, a virtual cooking class, and holiday crafts

Kwanzaa 2022 Philadelphia

Challenge friends to a street curling match in Franklin Square this winter

Franklin Square winter street curling

Franklin Square to be adorned with 200,000 holiday lights this winter

Franklin Square Winter light show

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Get in the Halloween spirit with spooky events from Historic Philadelphia this October

Franklin Square halloween spooky mini golf

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Franklin Square to celebrate its 'Sweet Sixteen' with free activities and a new fountain show

Franklin Square Sweet Sixteen Birthday Party

PATCO expects long-shuttered Franklin Square station to reopen in 2024

PATCO Franklin Square

Chinese Lantern Festival returns to Franklin Square for first time in three years

Philadelphia Chinese Lantern Festival Pandas

Philadelphia historic sites hosting fundraiser to support Ukraine

Ukraine Philly Historic Sites

Franklin Square's winter events to run 'longer than ever' this season

Franklin Square

Where to celebrate Halloween in Philadelphia this year

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Franklin Square has a new, covered beer garden

Franklin Square beer garden

Outdoor yoga offered in Franklin Square

Franklin Square

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Franklin Square reopening for the summer season

Franklin Square reopening

PATCO's Franklin Square Station renovation project gets $12.5 million grant from feds

Franklin Square Station PATCO

Franklin Square Holiday Festival offers festive fun for all ages

Santa at Franklin Square

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Stop by Franklin Square for family-friendly fun this fall

Spooky Mini Golf at Franklin Square

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Franklin Square's new fountain show to debut soon

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PHOTOS: The 2019 Philadelphia Chinese Lantern Festival

Carroll - Philadelphia Chinese Lantern Festival

Chinese Lantern Festival to return this spring for fourth year

Carroll- Chinese Lantern Festival

Check out these seven events celebrating Hanukkah in Philly

Everything going on this weekend in Philly, Nov. 15-18

Franklin Square holiday beer garden

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